Visakhapatnam: Workers at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant –Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) went on a daylong strike on Tuesday, demanding dropping the move to privatise the plant and implementation of wage revision. As many as 14 trade unions took part in the strike. The workers are also demanding job for the family of workers who […]
YSRCP victory in Tirupati Lok Sabha by-election was certain and the TDP and the BJP were vying for only the second place, said Minister Kurasala Kannababu
Govt had no business to sell the steel plant which is worth Rs 62,000 cr and already paid several thousands of cr towards taxes and in the form of dividend to the Centre, for a mere Rs. 3200 cr, said AITUC general secretary Amarjit Kaur
AITUC national leader Tapan Sen felt only a public struggle would stop privatisation and warned that people would not keep quiet if national wealth is sold away
"TRS government gave 43 per cent fitment, besides initiating many welfare programmes. How can BJP leaders label our government as anti-employee?" questioned Rama Rao
Trade union leaders Ch. Narasinga Rao, D. Adinarayana and Mantri Rajasekhar demanded revoking the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for 100 per cent strategic sale of RINL.
"Even while the agitation to save Vizag steel plant is intensified, the minister's remarks tend to provoke Telugu people," CPM Visakhapatnam district secretary K Lokanadham said
CPI (Maoist) Telangana State Committee spokesperson Jagan alleged that the Modi govt was privatising profitable public sector companies to capitalist and corporate forces
Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy had already announced that a resolution would be adopted in the Assembly opposing the privatisation of Vizag steel plant
Jaganmohan Reddy also drew the attention of Modi to the fact that the plant had a good performance between 2002 to 2015 earning profits with positive net worth.
Releasing a book `POSCO- Boon or Bane' penned by CITU state president Ch. Narasinga Rao here on Sunday, he said that the Vizag steel plant was set up after a mammoth movement by the local people and it should not be given up.